A Thai provincial court yesterday convicted and sentenced a 37-year-old man for murdering five family members – including his pregnant wife.
An Uttaradit court on Wednesday condemned Weerapol Pin-amorn to die for murdering his wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law and cousins. He can appeal his case to the Supreme Court.
Weerapol was arrested in January while attempting to flee the country following the brutal incident. Upon his capture, police said he confessed to the five murders. Prior to the murders, the gunman said he had been fighting with Kanyarat Kingkaew, his pregnant wife, and her family over possessions after they’d broken up that day.
Chilling CCTV footage emerged to show the moment Weerapol shot his wife and father-in-law. The two victims, lying on the ground, could be seen crawling towards one another before dying in each other’s arms.
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Last year Thailand carried out its first execution since 2009, prompting criticism by rights groups who had hoped the country was moving toward abolishing the practice. Debates around capital punishment started again last month when two Myanmar migrant workers sentenced to death for the brutal murder of a pair of British backpackers in Thailand lost their final appeal.
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